They informed me that I should speech for my son’s school’s “graduation” ceremony to high school. What a world! In Whole education time, I just had one graduation ceremony, and that was graduation from University, which they forced the university to have it. But nowadays for moving to every new grade they have a ceremony.
They informed me when I only had an hour to get ready, my son’s grade has 128 students and I must’ve talked to this many students and of course their parents. I’ve learned to take hours for writing one minute of the speech’s transcript, but I couldn’t use that and I had to improvise. to get set for the speech, I thought of the speech’s of others in such ceremonies, for example: Steve jobs’ speech in Stanford university has been famous.
I remembered Kurt Vonnegut’s conference for” Ladies and gentlemen of the class of ’1998”, which anyone will enjoy reading or listening to it. The time they’d translated it, it had been very famous and everyone thought it was real, but later I understood like George Washington’s axe, it was a beautiful but fictional story.
After a lot of problems, I made up a speech and spoke in the ceremony, but Vonnegut’s conference was very interesting to me.
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